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Sep 2, 2011 at 12:01 AM

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? ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 - including a man who officials now say helped organize last week's deadly car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the nation's capital, a high-ranking official told The Associated Press.

? PARACHINAR, Pakistan - Gunmen killed seven Shiite Muslims in an attack on a minibus in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, while two people died in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station.

? BAGHDAD - August marked the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died, an Associated Press tally shows.

Compiled from wire reports

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